First the bad news: unlike Sprint and T-Mobile, AT&T’s not being immediately forthcoming with all of its launch plans. We know that the carrier will open pre-orders for the GS3 on June 6, just as Verizon is doing, but AT&T hasn’t made any commitment yet for just when the phone will arrive, short of “in the coming weeks”. We’d like to believe that means joining-in on the June 21 party with Sprint and T-Mobile, but we’ll have to learn for sure another day.

This new red color option won’t be available immediately when AT&T starts selling the handset, but will join white and blue later this summer. We wonder if the carrier might be planning some sort of Fourth of July tie-in with the coming availability of this new version: red, white, and blue GS3s for the holiday. AT&T has yet to release any imagery of this new red version.

The other bit of news to come with AT&T’s announcement this evening is that the carrier will only have the 16GB version of the GS3, selling for about $200 on-contract. If you want to go 32GB with your AT&T GS3, you’ll need to do so via microSD expansion.